The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26
THE YUKON REGION
Facts About The Interior Of Alaska.
Country with Plenty Of Gold, hut
Almost In nsurmOuntabie Obstacles 10
obtain 1t.

Almo.t tInsurmountable Obsts cIcs 10
obtain IL.
A correspondent of the Alaska Free
Press writes this very interesting
letter:
left juneau early last spring for
the new Ell Dorado-the Yukon and
i,s tributaries. took passage to The
portage by steamer Yukon, paying $40
fare and so cents per 100 pounds for
nv outfit. Tie latter consisted of SIX
months provisions, tools, blankets,
etc. amounting in all to about 600
mounds. When | arrived at the port
are | expei fenced some difficulty with
the Chilkat Indians in making ar
rAngements To pack my stuff over the
range, but finally, after paying SlS per
hundred pounds. aud s. to the Chief
FIR the privilege of passing through
his country, succeeded in getting my
outfit over. Two and one half days
were thus eonsumnd in reaching Lake
Iindenman. Here loaded it on a
sled. and hoistins sail nut over the
frozen surface of the lake. was very
lucky i'm having eood stern wind.
ald my sled moved before il about r.
fast as | could walk and guide II.
Alter crossing and leaving the lake |
pnt myself in harness. AMI for nearly
a weeks travel his mulcship ingged
and strained and swnrc hefoie his load
until the open waters of the river were
reached. Here | went to work whip
saving lumber from very dwarted
growth of timber for tEe
CONTRIBUTION OF BoAr.
This consumed three days. When lin
ishrd il wins substantial structure,
hut very unwaildy, hut nevertheless
answered al purposes. My first day
nn the river was nearly as hard a one
as when | was pulling in the harness,
on account of slush ice. which WAS
running very thick. and my boat would
get into jam and the whole be,ome
cloggcd In some eddy, where only with
great deal of labor il could be ex-
tricatcd. But | finally got the run Of
things, and putting well out into the
middle of the stream | found that my
boat would float down rapidly with
the ice, and then all had to do was
tn steer clear of the larger jams. When
it got too dark to run with safety
pulled into shore and pitched for the
night. Travelling this way | reached
the mouth of
STEWART RIVER
Which is GOO miles from Chilkoot, or
the head of tidewater. Here | met a
party of miners, who informed me the
big excitement was down at Forty
mile Creek, 40 miles below Fort Reli-
ancs, and that all the boys who had
wintered on Stewart river, and also
those who had come that spring before
me, had gone down, aud that they
were also going to pull for that place
shortly. Being stranger in the coun-
try, could do nothing better than
follow the excitement, SO the follow
ing day one more boat was floating
down the Yukon, Its solitary occupant
bound for the new discoveries.
The current was strong, and | was
but a few days making the old Fort.
Here rested week, and in company
with three miners. who had arrived
some days before me, and were bound
for the same place, We started for the
Eew camp. The mouth of the river, or
FoRTY-MILE CREEK,
Was reached in one day and half,
being all down stream and swift
current. Here we found in the neigh
borhood of % men preparing to as
cend the river, and we were informed